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Welcome back. chris wright was on trial for his murder. and david knnovak was on the mo. his wife and some friends from the loft building know the real killer. had chris been framed for the crime as he claimed? we reached out to the defendant and novak for answers and one of them wanted to share his story with us. here is the conclusion of our story with keith morrison. >> chris wrights murder trial began in april of 2010. it had been more than two years since ken was shot dead in utah. chriss d...

>> to me, that was chris voice on that phone. >> the detectives pulled out a search warrant. bianca was home when the politicianpolice arrived. >> its surreal. you have, like roving gangs of toddlers who are ripping everything apart. they turned our sofas upsidedown and took apart the lining. they took apart my toaster. they take everything apart. >> a ballistics report told police the murder weapon was a .9 millimeter handgun. chris was an avid collector of guns and among them, police found an ...

Neighborhood in a certain northwestern city. didnt look like a man on the run, just a guy getting a coffee with his wife at starbucks. he just isnt answering calls or e-mails from his former loft friends and he didnt want to talk to dateline, telling us over the phone he was not involved in kens murder, has been cleared by the police and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and liable to be sued. bring it on, he says. >> so is chris wright a liar? >> some people are surprised that you stayed, tha...

Welcome back. friends in the salt lake city loft building mulled over the dark suspicions swirling through their hallways. chris wright was in jail awaiting trial, but many residents were now convinced police had the wrong wan. they believed investigators should be looking at another neighbor. one who was about to make a startling move. here, again, is keith morrison. >> among residents of the downtown salt lake loft, an idea took root around the story of the murder of ken dolezar. it was plante...

Losing stuff. >> before chris ever met ken dolezar, she took some visiting british friends on a shooting excursion to the great salt lake. they finished at sunset. >> and i put down this little gun, the springfield, on the ground, right next to the bag. and i went to, like, help somebody with something else. >> then she got distracted, she said, packed up the rest of the gear, went home, and neither she nor chris ever saw that gun again. biancas proof the gun was missing? this video made just ov...

>> and if the eyewitness was right, the killer shot with his right hand. >> christopher is staggeringly left handed. >> staggeringly left handed. then there was the business of eye color. now long after the event, the eyewitness was saying the killer had brilliant blue eyes. but right after the murder -- >> cant tell eye color, but his eyes seemed to be more bull gy. >> he got more and more refined in each interview with the police. >> brilliant blue eyes. >> yes. of course, you can see brillian...

Attempted to escape by faking his own death. ditched his airplane in puget sound. >> he faked his death in order to avoid insurance audit. that was not a crime of passion. that was a crime of calculation. >> or so the loft friends believed, and if that was true, what might he have done here in salt lake? theyre suspicion only grew when the friends found out novak left town without mentioning it was he who fingered chris in that surveillance photo. >> did he ever tell you, i identified christophe...

>> this is just too cloak and dagger for a jury. >> i understand how difficult it is to believe, but the alternative is that i just simply got up one day and decided to go shoot some poor person in a disguise. >> chris wanted to talk about that voice mail, the voice mail the detective was sure was left by chris. though, no voice analyst ever studied it. >> i mean, people who are going to watch your show are going to listen to my voice and are going to listen to that recording, and i urge them to...

>> she crarecalls all the supportive chats she had with novak after chris arrest. >> turns out he was probably fishing for information. >> it reminded friend, john feif, of a conversation with novak one night after they dined together. john posed a question, he said, mostly in jest, of course, just hypothetical. >> i said, david, have you ever contemplated committing the perfect murder? and he said, yes, the key element to that is making sure that someone is caught and charged with the crime. on...

Protect the real killer by setting up chris to take the fall. a conspiracy chris brushed off as nonsense. >> you would have to believe that it was somebody that looked like chris wright, sounded like chris wright, used the gun like chris wright, had chris wrights dna, had a connect to ken. >> all that claimed chriss defense that novak was quite capable of setting up. >> like a chess game somehow, 20 moves ahead. >> yep. >> but that didnt explain lee carlson. >> i am very certain, very clear what...